Google Map of the neighborhood around DAA
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=209511790590894305532.0004bfa8826ed7e025c93

This map is to help new staff know where to find the closest grocery store, ATM, etc., as well as set up a UAE cell phone.

Books about Dubai

Explorer publishes a Total Residents Guide to Dubai. Well worth purchasing. It covers everything from hotels to restaurants to getting around and weekend getaway suggestions. The DAA libraries hold a wide variety of guides and history books to the UAE that can be checked out.

A very informative website – DUBAI EXPLORER. http://www.liveworkexplore.com/dubai – it
really covers just about everything.

Expatwoman is a great website for questions about Dubai where to buy, where to go,
doctor/dentist recommendations, child care etc. You can search for information or post questions on their information board.

*Entertainer – 2 for 1 coupons for hundreds of great restaurants and entertainment. You will
save a fortune with this book. Buy an Entertainer immediately. Even though you’ll only have four
months to use it, it will pay for itself within days if you use it.

Dubai Facts from the American Women's Association

Print a map of your apartment from Google Earth and carry it with you so you can show cabbies where you live.

TimeOut tickets: 800 4669

Good deals in used cars, furniture and just about anything else you wish to buy. www.souq.com and //www.dubizzle.com// .

Don’t buy other books if you don’t have to – you aren’t going to pay to have them shipped when you move again. Use the school library. Unlimited checkouts of fiction, nonfiction, children’s books from pre-k up, travel books, magazines and a collection of DVD’s.